Some of The QE2 Anniversaries!

[Twynkle]

20th September 1967  Launched and named at Clydebank by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll

'Hat's off' and Three Cheers for QE2!
Hip hip Hooray!

[Bob C.]

hip hip hooray

[Avariel]

Hip hip Hooray!

[Jem]

Many Happy Returns And May You Have Many More

[Twynkle]

Well done!
http://www.thenationalpages.co.uk/blog/2009/09/september-20th-birthday-of-qe2/

[highlander0108]

These probably have been posted before, but deserve another look on the anniversary of her launching.

http://scotland.stv.tv/see-do/76386-qe2-memories-part-1/
http://scotland.stv.tv/see-do/76387-qe2-memories-part-2/
http://scotland.stv.tv/see-do/76388-qe2-memories-part-3/

Brings a grown man to tears....

[Bob C.]

Superb Ken, thanks  for sharing this!

[Louis De Sousa]

Nice find Ken,thanks.

Louis

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

Alastair Greener has written this in his wearecunard blog :

September 20 2008

QE2 celebrates her final Cunard birthday on her last Transatlantic crossing from New York to Southampton

http://wearecunard.com/2009/09/queen-victoria-returns-to-her-birthplace/

It seems amazing that QE2 facts can get forgotten and distorted, even by a Cunard blog, after as short a period as one single year!

QE2 was in St John, New Brunswick, Canada, that day, and had a wonderful pipes-and-drums concert performed for her by the Simonds Lions Caledonian Pipe Band :

https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=qe2%20%22st%20john%22&w=55206992%40N00

Nor was the transatlantic crossing, which she started after leaving Quebec, 4 days later on 24 September, her last...

This Forum is doing a really important job ensuring that facts about QE2 (even small ones like this!) are recorded as accurately (and as caringly!) as possible...

[highlander0108]

I missed posting this yesterday. September 24th was the 250th anniversary of Guinness, which many of us enjoyed onboard.  When a heard a news story about this in the car yesterday, it took me right back to QE2.  I loved my fish and chips with a Guinness in the Golden Lion for lunch.

Ken

[Louis De Sousa]

  3rd November 1070: Maiden call at Luanda, Angola

I remember my father telling me this call in Luanda he was there at that time.

Louis

[Jem]

Here she is   at Gib.....

[Jem]

Nov 16 Civitavecchia Italy

[Louis De Sousa]

This time for 15 years i was in mid Atlantic heading towards Hamburg for the 1994 Refit.There was a skeleton crew onboard and loads of contractors,most of them done no work for been seasick. 

Louis

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

Amazing memories, Louis! You have certainly seen QE2 at times when few others had the chance... and seen parts of her that few others get to see.

Tell us some more about those days! Why was QE2 crossing the Atlantic without passengers? What were the contractors up to, when they were able to stand up and work? How was QE2 prepared for the refit?